Les belles images vs Notre Dame de Paris: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: French fiction, Continental european fiction, Fiction
Les belles images
"Non ; elle a crié tout haut. Pas Catherine. Je ne permettrai pas qu'on lui fasse ce qu'on m'a fait. Qu'a-t-on fait de moi ? Cette femme qui n'aime personne, insensible aux beautés du monde, incapable même de pleurer,…
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Notre Dame de Paris
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Les belles images is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 7 for Notre Dame de Paris.
- Notre Dame de Paris has the widest readership — 224399 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Les belles images | Notre Dame de Paris | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (4052) | 4.0 (224399) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (4) | — |
Reception
| Les belles images | Notre Dame de Paris | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 4052 | 224399 |
| Editions | 41 | 265 |
| Citations | 14 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 4405 | 272359 |
| Reading it now | 190 | — |
| Written reviews | 347 | 10083 |
| Wikipedia attention | 251 | 53026 |
| Pages | 174 | 409 |